. >> piers, thank you for your spirited defense. michael, thank you for your remarkable concern. i want you to know and i tweeted you, cnn didn't instruct me to be anywhere. we tried to get the story out as well as we could. and this is not our first rodeo. we paid close attention to safety concerns. >> people are watching ali on the screen and this is where -- it this looks like the first hour or two, and you look like, you know, you were really into it. but i was watching you in the fourth and fifth hour, and you really had -- i felt so bad for you. did you draw the short straw at cnn? and you are such a great business reporter, you know, what i really want to know this week, what's on the tax returns that mitt romney won't show us? that's what america wants to know. what's he hiding? >> the great thing is that ali velshi will tell us on that as well. and he is outstandingly courageous. we have to go. we're running late. >> if you don't like it here, come work for me. >> that is worse than standing in the water in atlantic city. >> that's true. >>> piers, thank you very much. g